Setting up a new organisation?

Maureen Macnamara from Victoria University is looking for people who are in the process of starting up a new charity to participate in a research project.

They are looking at the very early stages of emergence – that is, the time between identifying a need or having a good idea, and arriving at a point where a new organisation is formed (whether as a charitable trust, incorporated society, company or other legal entity).

They want to find out what is happening from people who are currently experiencing this process and hope their research will help people who are creating new not for profit organisations, and those who support them and their founders. It will also provide valuable information about what is happening in the New Zealand context (a lot of research happens overseas, not here).